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Lamprey vs Rocksucker - What's the difference?

lamprey | rocksucker |

As nouns the difference between lamprey and rocksucker

is that lamprey is any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw while rocksucker is a lamprey.

lamprey

English

(wikipedia lamprey)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any long slender primitive eel-like freshwater and saltwater fish of the Petromyzontidae family, having a sucking mouth with rasping teeth but no jaw.

    • Derived terms

    * brook lamprey * European river lamprey * sea lamprey

    References

    * lamprey] in , volume VI, 1908 *

    rocksucker

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lamprey.